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IT industry analyst. Lifelong hacker and geek. Polymath. Trying to find ways to be less evil. Boundless curiosity. Tech, SF, TTRPG, science, environment, democracy. Personal account, opinions my own. He/Him. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦🍁 #HamOnt
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We have so many they put up signs and little fences.
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Looks good. Get it?
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A couple of SF series off the top of my head: Remembrance of Earth's Past (Three Body Problem, etc.) by Liu Cixin and the Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, etc.) by Kim Stanley Robinson. I really enjoyed both of those.
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Admit it, you have six clones of yourself writing SF while Adrian Prime paints miniatures, don't you? :-)
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Insectivores? Big mouths to scoop up mosquitoes?
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I'm not sure we give it a lot of thought. Kind of like the senate. We should probably get around to cleaning up our form of government a bit sometime, though. It's become a bit crufty.
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Deservedly so!
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That whole album is brilliant
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Your question piqued my curiousity, so I looked it up. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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A quarter of the way through Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera. Making progress on reading all of the Nebula nominees.
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That's obviously Monoperation.
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The "Waterloo" referred to in the docs, for those who may not know, is the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. The Pascal and FORTRAN, as well as the APL, are probably the Waterloo versions. I remember learning FORTRAN using WATFOR-77.
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I see what you did there
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How were you lucky enough to get a copy of this at the time? Whenever I chide myself for not doing this sort of thing, I remind myself that my computer education resources were limited to whatever the local library had plus the odd magazine.
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I'm thinking we could both be right.
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The computer you want always costs 5000 USD
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Mark Knopfler is a great songwriter and my favourite guitarist.
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This is about as far as I got.
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Traffic everywhere.
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Hotttt freeeaks. Hot. Freaks.
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Did you wander off again?
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Levies on oil. Proceeds to embattled industries.
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A key part of this story is that you can't simply go without boots for a few years while you save up the money for a good pair. The need for an immediate solution locks you in to the inferior solution.